Make Laxmanananda homicide probe report public: BJP, VHP to Odisha govt
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By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: The state unit of the Vishva Hindu Parishad and BJP on Wednesday got here down closely on the state authorities for not making public the interim and closing stories submitted by the judicial fee that probed the ugly homicide of Swami Laxamanananda Saraswati and 4 of his disciples at Jalespeta in Kandhamal district on August 23, 2008.
Almost 15 years have handed, however the state authorities is but to make the interim report submitted by Justice (retd) Sarat Mohapatra and the ultimate report by Justice (retd) AS Naidu public, state VHP normal secretary Mahesh Sahu informed mediapersons.
“We have been demanding the government to make the inquiry reports public so that people will know who are the conspirators and what was their motive. Surprisingly, the government is silent. We fail to understand why it had set up the judicial inquiry,” Sahu stated.
The interim report of Justice Mohapatra had stated that conversion by Christian missionaries was the first motive behind the homicide. In a bid to maintain its secular credential intact, the state authorities took all attainable steps to save lots of the missionaries by calling the bloodbath a handiwork of Maoists, he alleged.
Coming out in assist of the VHP demand, state BJP normal secretary Jatin Mohanty stated the BJD authorities is doing appeasement politics. “It is the state government which set up the judicial commission of inquiry. Why it is reluctant to table the report of judicial commission in the Assembly,” he questioned.The BJP urged the federal government to make it public through the monsoon session of the Assembly.
BHUBANESWAR: The state unit of the Vishva Hindu Parishad and BJP on Wednesday got here down closely on the state authorities for not making public the interim and closing stories submitted by the judicial fee that probed the ugly homicide of Swami Laxamanananda Saraswati and 4 of his disciples at Jalespeta in Kandhamal district on August 23, 2008.
Almost 15 years have handed, however the state authorities is but to make the interim report submitted by Justice (retd) Sarat Mohapatra and the ultimate report by Justice (retd) AS Naidu public, state VHP normal secretary Mahesh Sahu informed mediapersons.
“We have been demanding the government to make the inquiry reports public so that people will know who are the conspirators and what was their motive. Surprisingly, the government is silent. We fail to understand why it had set up the judicial inquiry,” Sahu stated.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The interim report of Justice Mohapatra had stated that conversion by Christian missionaries was the first motive behind the homicide. In a bid to maintain its secular credential intact, the state authorities took all attainable steps to save lots of the missionaries by calling the bloodbath a handiwork of Maoists, he alleged.
Coming out in assist of the VHP demand, state BJP normal secretary Jatin Mohanty stated the BJD authorities is doing appeasement politics. “It is the state government which set up the judicial commission of inquiry. Why it is reluctant to table the report of judicial commission in the Assembly,” he questioned.The BJP urged the federal government to make it public through the monsoon session of the Assembly.
